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Book and Film: The Shining

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2007-12-28 08:00:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
...boiler that needs to be adjusted every day or the hotel will blow up. I'm sorry, what? Huh? Can the reader honestly believe that if the owners of the Waldorf Astoria were dependent upon daily adjustments to a rusty old boiler to keep their hotel from blowing up that they wouldn't just get a new boiler? To the even halfway perceptive reader...
 
Tags: book, film, boiler subplot, boiler, jack, reason jack, jack falls deeper, kubrick, damn boiler
 
 
 
 
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The Emotional Trader & Manipulative Money Man

2008-10-14 01:42:00 by Sachin in Scribbles and Ramblings
 
...Boiler Room and Sameer Hanchate's Gafla Emotional meltdown In Boiler Room we see how young men are trained and even encouraged to cheat people out of their money. The brokers lie and do whatever it takes to get their clients to throw away their hard earned money. The brokers (including the brokers in training) all want to be quickly rich...
 
Tags: story, news article, article, news, emotional, brokers, wall street, major news outlets, male brokers
 
 
 
 
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Vin Diesel Making a Couple More Riddick Movies for TBS to Show

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2008-08-26 14:45:36 by HASH0x86d8f84 in I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
...Boiler Room 2: Boiler Entire House, Remember Knockaround Guys?, Muscular Nanny 2, , and That One Where He's in Court ...AGAIN! , all of which should be really good, because Vin Diesel loves these characters--particularly Muscular Nanny. Vin Diesel Promises Two More Riddick Sequels [MTV
 
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The Shining (1980)

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2008-09-04 01:16:50 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...boiler room that will soon be completely deserted. The hotel also features a 13-foot tall hedge maze outside Head cook Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) senses that Danny and he share the same ability. He tells the boy that his grandmother called this shining, the ability to see things that havent happened yet. Danny feels that theres...
 
Tags: set, kubrick set, luxurious overlook hotel, director, overlook hotel, director stanley kubrick, kubrick, epic horror film, film
 
 
 
 
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31 Days of Zombie!, Day 29: Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1985)

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2007-10-29 01:33:00 by rob humanick in The Projection Booth
...boiler psychological dwellings. As pointed out by many usually in a negative light its characters are largely of the with-us-or-against-us breed, good or bad, heroic or villainous. Here, mankind has been whittled down to the simplest of its elements, each clinging desperately to the order of the old world and the structure however destructive...
 
Tags: dead, day, zombie, dead attacks, dead litters, dead begins, final judgment day, day features, films
 
 
 
 
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P & P Blog-a-thon: Gone to Earth

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2007-12-17 15:48:37 by philosopherouge in Beyond the Valley of the Cinephiles
...boiler, and kitsch perhaps theyre closer in their interpretation than I am. The film is over the top, its over sexualized (although by todays standards its quite tame), and its borderline exploitive, but I love it. Ive always been attracted to this style of film though, from Pabsts melodramas to Sirks grandiose American portraits, I see this...
 
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)

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2008-01-25 20:39:00 by dfordoom in Cult Movie Reviews
...boiler, of the dangers of meddling with Dark Forces. Christopher Lee is the arrogant Duc de Richleau, who is something of as control freak, but this time Lee is one of the good guys, battling the Forces of Darkness. Lee actually knew Dennis Wheatley and its obvious from the commentary track that he actually believes in the reality of these...
 
Tags: lee, time lee, dennis wheatley pot-boiler, christopher lee, forces, dennis wheatley, dark forces, devil rides, satanic forces
 
 
 
 
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Unhitched & Unhinged

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2008-02-11 07:55:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...boiler-plate, garden variety psychopath. He's grim and focused, but his performance feels phoned in. You've seen this kind of character a million times before Again, allow me to make the point about remakes based on one simple scene featured in both versions of the material. In the original Hitcher , Jim Halsey asks Ryder why he is...
 
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Added Cast for 'Love Ranch' and 'Chess'

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2008-02-12 00:00:00 by Monika Bartyzel in Cinematical
...Boiler Room, Meet the Parents, Boston Public, House of Wax , or any of his other roles. He will play Chess' younger brother Phil, "who worries when Leonard becomes involved with a singer who has been signed to their label." I'm still more intrigued by the other film in the works, but again, I think a lot will bank on Etta James and the rest...
 
Tags: chess, love ranch, leonard chess biopic, play chess, play, oyelowo, leonard, david oyelowo, jon abrahams
 
 
 
 
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Choosing roads, not paving them

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2008-02-15 04:10:21 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film